This covid is a bastard

[smine1]

I hang my head in shame I was at the point of 'oh it's a cold' tested positive Wednesday due to a sore throat and BANG the bastard has knocked me off my feet , I have never felt so crap in all my life ... how long have others felt like crap?? My symptoms started with sore throat , then a headache from hell , dizzy , then a full on cold , my teeth even hurt, my body aches ...but no temp and no cough .. Tripled jabbed too .. it needs to go I only started my new job two weeks ago...

@BooseysMom oh wow, you wouldnt expect to test positive again after two negatives! To be fair after I got two negatives two days in a row (think that was day 11 and 12) I didnt test again, and fortunately nobody has caught anything as of two weeks later. Sadly I'm still suffering! It's very depressing, you have one day where you think things are on the up then bam, next day further downhill. Just feel so lethargic and my brain isnt working, I had a cry again today. I'm sorry you're going through it, how are you feeling? You probably wont be contagious anymore in a couple of days xxx

Magic1231
Thanks 😊it's been 10 days now and I'm still coughing and have a sore throat but it might be the heat and pollen and not the Covid. I'm the same as you with the tiredness and brain fog. I went for a walk today and was shocked how much it took it out of me.
Hope you feel better soon x

I have woken up coughing again just hoping I have not got Covid again and it's just the cough that get lost.
I been have been back nearly 2 weeks and hope not reinfection.

Could that won't get lost I meant so tired

@Scorpio8.. I'm the same. I have an endless annoying tickly cough. We did get it back after a week..tested positive after 2 negatives. We felt like we'd been flattened with a concrete mixer..ie. knackered!
hope your cough improves soon.

@Scorpio8 ahh I know how you feel, i also wondered if I'd been reinforced, pretty certain you havent. It just seems like symptoms including the cough randomly flair up again for a while after, it's strange xxx

@BooseysMom as you say, it's just annoyingly tickly, and a certain sensitivity in the chest is what I have, very annoying. I'm 3 weeks post covid now xxx

Has anyone had shortness of breath 3weeks + past covid . I get so out of breath now 😏

smine1 - yes, me. I only checked out the Covid Board to see if anyone else had this. At first I thought it was due to less physical activity during my 2 weeks of Covid, and at first I was getting back to normal. A week later, I can do only 10% of the physical stuff I did pre-Covid; turning 60 this month and being physically capable is part of my identity, for decades.

I hope it's something that will pass.

@TheHateIsNotGood it's crazy and scary. I'm active and was always running about like a loon , even hoovering the stairs is a challenge I have to sit for a few minutes to recover. I hope this isn't it!!

If you have exhaustion and symptoms of covid after 3 or 4 weeks, slow down. Rest. Your body can use its energy and calories to fix your damaged cells, or for housework and exercise. Not both.

4 weeks since I tested positive and that's me just feeling 100% now. I was lucky to be able to take it easy and rest up! I was in bed for 6 days! If I hadn't been able to take it easy instead to think how shite I'd still feel!

@BronzeSage thank you

I had it in January, knocked me for 6. Took about 5 weeks to get back to my precovid self. Kids and husband had it too, would have barely known they were ill.
Went camping last week. Did my normal Sunday morning test before work and bam. Got it again. I've had an irritating cough for maybe a day or two. Barely coughed today. Still got my smell and taste which I lost last time and not feeling anymore tired than usual.
I told my cousin who we camped with and she said she was feeling OK Sunday, Monday very rough. Ltf negative. Tuesday rough. Ltf negative. Wednesday feeling much better, now positive. Today child one tested positive after 2 days feeling rough but again, feeling better by time positive. She has 2 more kids and expecting them to go the same way.
It is so random with its symptoms.

Im on my third time!!

I had it last summer - was bed bound for a weekend

I also had it more recently whilst I was induced and in labour (and then surgery) - honestly the worst experience of my life

This time it's not as bad but still a massive pain- DC1 has D&V and DC2 is teething so I'm literally at the end of my tether but it doesn't seem as bad as the last two times (maybe I just can't possibly have time to be ill?!)

You have my sympathy- it really is a BASTARD

@Magic1231

After yesterday at work and this woman woman I served was coughing so much. She clearly wasn't well. I had to put hand gel on my hands straight after.

This cough has woken me up aswell as my lower back which is due to something else.

I might need to do a test.

@Scorpio8 it could be worth doing a test, I'm the same though, the cough settles then suddenly it's back, it's such a weird one. I'm back to wearing a mask in shops now, people will argue that it does nothing, but I'm sure it helps a little xxx

Oh and like others, I'm 3 weeks post getting a negative test and still get breathless, it is very frustrating! You really get lulled into a false sense of security after jabs thinking well it will just be like a cold... yet here we are. Hopefully it passes xxx

My DH is on day 6 and still really poorly. He seems to perk up a bit and then go downhill again. The cough seems worse now than at the start and he has lost his appetite, has the sweats etc. I thought he would be over the worse by now 🙁

Ahhh sorry to hear that @pinkchampagne1 it really can be a nasty virus. I was the same as your DH, sadly I think a lot of people are taking a good two weeks with it. Although, the worst of what hes going through should past in a few days xxx

Hi, im on day 3, oh my god the upper back pain is awful, i feel like i have been eaten up.
My whole body aches and coughing up phlem. Its rubbish, this heat wave isn't helping at all

Oh I do hope so. It has been a nasty virus - I really thought he would be over the worse by now. He has an unsettled stomach too which he is putting down to all the pills he has been popping the last few days

Muddlebubble, I hope you’re feeling better soon. My DH was suffering with the sweats this morning and sure the hot weather has made him worse.
Does anyone else in your household have it?

So sorry to read that this variant is impacting everyone so much. I'm on day 4 here and feel rubbish. Symptoms started with chills, fever, headache and sore throat and have progressed to crushing body aches in my back and legs and tinnitus which is slowly driving me mad. Have been woken up at 3am the last few nights and taken a while to get back to sleep again.

We think DS had it as he had vomiting/diarrhea/fever last week but luckily he seems fine now and DH has so far escaped which means I have been able to rest whilst he looks after DS.

I hadn't anticipated until reading this thread that it could go on for so long, I was hoping to feel well again by the weekend but seems I need to manage expectations

Yup unsettled stomach is added extra too. My sister has/had it when we went camping then my daughter who has escaped without any symptoms apart from a headache day one.
My house is like a sauna i want to sleep the day away but its too hot and my ribs hurt now.

BronzeSage many thanks for the advice. I used it to alter my mindset from thinking about what I can't do to thinking about repairing my 'damaged cells' as the main point and after that putting one leg in front of the other.

And feel much better for it

Before then, I did rest a lot, vastly reducing what I normally did and don't get my physical ability from gyms anyway (not for covid reasons),

I'll report back in a day or two to see if it's a sustained trajectory and not just an up in the cv19 rollercoaster.